[gentoo-doc] Toolchain guide?

[Marc Blumentritt]

Hi,

since some months I'm searching about informations, how Gentoo handles
all packages which are needed for compilation and installation of source
packages. Of course emerge handles all installations, but how does it
handle the toolchain to not break it or system compatibility, if one
major package of the toolchain is updated (like gcc)?

I know that there is a gcc upgrade guide, but what I have in mind is a
general discription of the toolchain, how Gentoo handles it through
emerge and ebuilds, and what you have to think about, when you update
toolchain packages. I think that Gentoo as a source based distribution
needs something like this to explain to all users, which never heard of
a toolchain before they switched to Gentoo (like me), what's all magic
behind compiling all your packages on your own system and why this is so
much better than using precompiled binarys like nearly everyone else.

What to you all think?
Marc Blumentritt
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